Notes

"The Honorable Phillip Lightfoot came to the colony of Virginia
before 1670 from England. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel of
Militia and Justice of Gloucester County, 1680; Justice of James
City County, 1694-1699; Collector of Customs for Upper James
River and Surveyor General. He registered his will in 1708 and
died in 1710. His tomb is without date and bears arms "Lightfoot
Impaling Corbin". (The coats of arms of both the Lightfoot and
Corbin Families are displayed side by side.)

Phillip purchased three tracts of land at Sandy Point along the
Chickahominy River most of which he willed to his sons Francis
and then Phillip.

Embracing a revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Philip
Slaughter's earlier History of St. Mark's Parish, this 1958
volume is rich with will records, family histories, marriage
records, chruch and military records.

Bibliographic Information: Green, Realeigh Travers. Genealogical
and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, VA. Southern Book
Company, Baltimore. 1958 pg 69
THE LIGHT FOOTS.
The Lightfoots were among the early colonists in Virginia. They
seem to have settled originally in Gloucester and James City
when the latter embraced what is now Charles City County.
Colonel Philip Lightfoot was a vestryman of Petsworth Parish as
early as 1683. By his last will he devised his lands to his
eldest son Francis, remainder to his son Philip. Francis devised
his lands to his daughter Elizabeth, who married Peter Randolph
of Henrico; remainder to his brother Philip Lightfoot. The
entail was docked by the House of Burgesses in 1740, and by
agreement between the parties these lands were vested in Philip
Lightfoot.

The present writer remembers to have seen at Sandy Point in
Charles C ity when it was owned and occupied by Col. Robt. B.
Bolling, divers portraits of the old Lightfoots. There were
three William Lightfoots in succession at Sandy Point, and their
tombs are still there. The first died in 1727, the second in
1809, and the third in 1810. We have in our possession now a
copy of Bayles' folio dictionary, in ten volumes, with the name
and coat-of-arms of William Lightfoot Tedington on each volume.
Tedington was one of the four farms which composed the splendid
estate of Sandy Point, between the James and Chickahominy
Rivers. Three of these farms were inherited by Miss Minge (Mrs.
Robert B. Bolling), and the fourth was added by Mr. Bolling.

There is a family of Lightfoots at Port Royal, Caroline,
represented by the late Philip Lightfoot and his sons, Lewis
Lightfoot and his brother John.

In 1726 we find the name of Major Goodrich Lightfoot as a member
of the vestry of St. George's Parish, Spotsylvania, when that
parish and county embraced what was afterwards the parish of St.
Mark's and county of Culpeper. He was one of the lay readers at
the Germanna Church, and he and Robert Slaughter were appointed
to count all the tobacco plants from the mouth of the Rapidan to
the mouth of Mountain Run, and up Mountain Run and across to the
mouth of the Robinson River, in obedience to an Act of the
Assembly limiting the number of plants to be cultivated by each
planter.

At the organization of St. Mark's Parish, at Germanna in 1731,
he was chosen a member of the first vestry by the freeholders
and housekeepers of St. Mark's, his home being within the limits
of the new parish. He served as vestryman and churchwarden till
his death in 1738, and was succeeded by Captain Goodrich
Lightfoot in 1741, who served till his removal from the parish
in 1771. William Lightfoot was also a vestryman from 1752 to
1758, when he moved out of its bounds to the parish of
Bromfield, which had been cut off from St. Mark's in 1752.
William, we think, was the father of Goodrich, who married the
daughter of the Rev. Henry Fry, who lived in the fork of Crooked
Run....."